How did they ever get an empire ?

Capt'n Midnight · 28-11-2009 8:20pm #1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6153518/Crumbs-half-of-Britons-injured-by-their-biscuits-on-coffee-break-survey-reveals.html

Crumbs: half of Britons injured by their buscuits on coffee break, survey reveals

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An estimated 25 million adults have been injured while eating during a tea or coffee break ....

The custard cream biscuit was found to be the worse offender to innocent drinkers.

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Hidden dangers included flying fragments and being hurt while dunking in scalding tea through to the more strange such as people poking themselves in the eye with a biscuit or fallen off a chair reaching for the tin.

One man even ended up stuck in wet concrete

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It found almost a third of adults said they had been splashed or scalded by hot drinks while dunking or trying to fish the remnants of a collapsed digestive.

It also revealed 28 per cent had choked on crumbs while one in 10 had broken a tooth or filling biting a biscuit.

More unusually, three per cent had poked themselves in the eye with a biscuit and seven per cent bitten by a pet or "other wild animal" trying to get their biscuit.

Mindlab International director Dr David Lewis said: "We tested the physical properties of 15 popular types of biscuits, along with aspects of their consumption such as 'dunkability' and crumb dispersal.

Mike Driver, Marketing Director for Rocky said: "We commissioned this study after learning how many biscuit related injuries are treated by doctors each year."

The full list of riskiest biscuits:

Custard Cream 5.64

Cookie 4.34

Choc Biscuit Bar (eg: Rocky) 4.12

Wafer 3.74

Rich Tea 3.45

Bourbon 3.44

Oat Biscuit 3.31

Digestive 3.14

Ginger Nut 2.99

Shortbread 2.90

Caramel Shortcake 2.76

Nice Biscuit 2.27

Iced Biscuits/Party Rings 2.16

Chocolate Finger 1.38

Jaffa Cakes 1.16

pablomakaveli · 28-11-2009 8:22pm

If only the lads had been armed with Custard Creams during the 1916 Rising.

Seillejet · 28-11-2009 8:24pm

If we had of know this in 1916 as oppossed to heading to the GPO.

partyatmygaff · 28-11-2009 8:27pm

We could've iced them with some iced biscuits.

amacachi · 28-11-2009 8:28pm

Of those "injured" how many required treatment? I "injure" myself all the time, don't need to go to hospital for it.

Oh wait, AH, yeah, idiots. And they're british.

Beasty · 28-11-2009 8:30pm

Only ever dunk the bourbons myself - never had a single injury. The key is to keep them in the fridge - it minimises disintegration, which means you don't have to scoop any "sludge" out with your fingers (which is, of course, one of the riskiest procedures associated with dunking).

Not surprised jaffa cakes are least risky - no-one in their right mind dunks them (and they are technically cake, not a biscuit)